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FI CT I ON MAY 2018

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED NOVEL, THE ANCHORESS

A profoundly beautiful story about creativity and connection, and our instinctive need to understand our world and communicate with others through the pages of a book. London, 1321: In a small stationer’s shop in Paternoster Row, three people are drawn together around the creation of a magnificent book, an illuminated manuscript of prayers, a book of hours. Even though the commission seems to answer the aspirations of each one, their own desires and ambitions threaten its completion. As each of them struggles to see the book come into being, it will change everything they have understood about their place in the world. This is a story about power. It is also a novel about the place of women in the roiling and turbulent world of the early fourteenth century; what power they have, how they wield it, and just how temporary and conditional it is.

FANS OF ROBYN’S WORK INCLUDE GERALDINE BROOKS, ELIZABETH GILBERT AND SARAH DUNANT

‘Robyn Cadwallader fashions words with the same delicate, colourful intensity that her 14th century illuminators brought to their illustrated manuscripts. Book of Colours brings alive a harsh but rich past, filled with the fantasies, fears, sly wit and tender longings of the medieval imagination’ Sarah Dunant ‘ Book of Colours shows the depth of possibility a book might hold — all the while shimmering with the beauty and fragility of an ancient gilded page’ Eleanor Limprecht

Book of Colours RO BY N C A DWA L L A D E R

ISBN: 9781460752210 eISBN: 9781460707050

AUS PRICE: $32.99 NZ PRICE: $36.99 Trade Paperback PAGE EXTENT: 304pp PUBLICITY CONTACT: Sarah Barrett EMAIL: sarah.barrett@harpercollins.com.au RELEASED: 23/04/18

Canberra, ACT

Robyn Cadwallader has published numerous, prize- winning short stories, as well as a book of poetry and a non-fiction book based on her PhD thesis concerning attitudes to virginity and women in the Middle Ages. Her first novel, The Anchoress , about a medieval woman who shuts herself away for life in a tiny cell, was published in the UK, US and Australia to universal acclaim. Robyn lives among vineyards outside Canberra when she is not travelling to England for research, visiting ancient archaeological sites along the way.

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